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The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee to

be celebrated with ‘Tree of Trees’

A huge sculpture made up of
350 British native trees is to be
erected outside Buckingham Pal-
ace to mark the Queen’s historic
Platinum Jubilee.
An artist’s impression shows
how the 70ft structure, made up
of small trees in aluminium pots
‘sprouting’ from timber-plank
Minister warns of ‘unprecedented branches, will tower over the
palace gates during the four-day
surge’ in passport applications bank holiday weekend in June.
It will form a centrepiece of
UK travellers could lose out on would advise them to get their ap- celebrations at the palace, which
holidays this summer because of an plication in as soon as possible.” will include a live pop concert to
“unprecedented” surge in passport If you do need to get your pass- be held in front of 10,000 people.
applications. port renewed to meet the latest cri- The sculpture was announced
Those hoping to travel abroad teria, the Home Office has warned on Friday which is Earth Day,
have been warned to renew their Brits that there could be a delay of with the Prince of Wales also
passports “as soon as possible” by around 10 weeks to get your docu- marking the occasion with an en-
Home Office minister Kevin Foster, ment issued. vironmental project for children.
who said a million passport appli- It's estimated that over five mil- The ‘Tree of Trees’ sculp- the UK to create a canopy of sors and is usually used to com-
cations were received in the last lion people have delayed their ture, created by British designer green in tribute to the monarch’s memorate official visits.
month alone. passport applications in 2020 and Thomas Heatherwick, reflects 70 years of service to the nation. During her reign, the Queen
“To put that into context, we 2021. the planting of more than a mil- The trees that make up the has planted more than 1,500
usually deal with seven million in a Post-Brexit travel rules from the lion Jubilee trees as part of the sculpture will be gifted to com- trees across the world.
whole year,” he told MPs. EU have complicated matters fur- Queen’s Green Canopy (QGC). munity groups and organisations The sculpture is partly made
“We would advise people this ther as they require travelling Brit- The initiative, which spans two at the start of the next planting from old surplus steel and mate-
is a very, virtually unprecedented ons to have at least three months official tree-planting seasons, has season in October. rials are being sourced from UK
surge in demand, and if people are validity remaining when travelling already seen thousands of people Royal tree-planting has long suppliers to minimise transpor-
planning to travel this summer we to EU member nations. planting Jubilee saplings across been a staple duty for the Wind- tation, energy use and waste.